DIY Mod Podge Wood Bracelets

I’ve had Mod Podge on my mind, what with it being last week’s theme over at the challenge at One Artsy Mama. (Speaking of which, voting for the fabric round starts today! If you have a minute, go check it out and vote for your favorites!) Anyway, I tried my hand at another Mod Podge project: Wood Bracelets, decorated with creative papers. You can take a wooden bangle and make it into… anything you can imagine!

As you can see… I had some trouble deciding what to put on mine, so I ended up making a few. ;) I ended up using a map of my first vacation my husband and I took together, some text from Robert Frost’s “The Road Less Traveled”, and some butterfly scrapbook paper that I just adore.

Raya immediately claimed the butterfly one:

Yes, I am teaching her to accessorize early.

This was a really simple and quick project – less than an hour for all three bracelets. In fact the hardest part was finding wood bracelets! I finally ordered from Banglewood Crafts on Etsy. I’d really recommend them, she shipped super fast and the bracelets are awesome.

What you’ll need:

Flat wooden bracelets

Acrylic Paint

Mod Podge

Graphic or paper of your choice – you may want to use a paper trimmer to cut it evenly

Paintbrush

First, trim up your paper to the width of your bracelet. Then, paint the inside and the edges of your bracelet. I painted the edges of the outside too, because my paper was ever-so-slightly smaller than the width of the bracelet because I wanted the inside color to really show.

Now, apply some Mod Podge to the backside of your paper, and carefully apply it to your bracelet. Once you have it nice and smooth and straight, cover it with a coat of Mod Podge. Let it dry.

When it’s dry, coat the inside and the edges with Mod Podge too. If you look above, there’s a little smudge on the left edge of that bracelet. If you get any of those, smooth it out before it dries. (I did, I just didn’t notice yet when taking the photo.) :)

I couldn't pick a best one – love em all!! What a great idea to use the map from your 1st vacation.Raya's got great taste ;)<3 Christinahttp://igottacreate.blogspot.comWildly Original Round Up party is open!

Thanks for linking the bracelets and the quilt up with us at the All Star Block Party. I'm so in love with the map bracelet. I can't wait to show it to my sister (she's map obsessed like me). I'm pinning this too :)

Oh my goodness these are too cute! I favorited this a few days ago on craftgawker and thought they looked cute, and now that I get on on my computer and have a closer look, I see where the map is–MY HOME! So cool! These are seriously adorable and now I'm even more in love with them :D

you can also get wood popsicle craft sticks. Boil them for about 30 min, let sit in hot water for 30 min, then you can bend them to fit inside of a drinking glass. When they dry completely overnight you will have a wood bracelet to decorate.

Keep in mind that you might want to use a glass a little bit smaller than the bracelet you want. The liquid in the paint will cause it to swell slightly until it dries.

Hello, and welcome! I'm Adrianne, an artist, author, designer, and blogger in western Michigan. I work from home with my husband and our kids.
I have a compulsion for daily creativity... sometimes it's jewelry-making, paper crafting, metal stamping, mixing and baking, or giving new life to recycled items. But with 2 young kids, time is short! My goal here at Happy Hour Projects is to share projects and tips that you can do in an hour or less. The ideas you find here are designed to add a little creativity in your day, no matter how much (or how little) time you have!

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